CS 5643 Final Project Professor: Doug James Due date: TBA In this final project you will research and implement a topic on physically based animation (or closely related area). Groups: Work on your own, or in a group of two people. Effort: The project should involve effort comparable to (or not much greater than) earlier assignments.

This final project has the following components:

1. Project proposal (PDF format) [DUE: Thurs April 4]:  To help you select and better define your project, you must submit a project proposal.  The proposal should be in the form of a 2-page paper, e.g., LaTeX'd in SIGGRAPH format, and include the following information:
• Abstract and introduction
• Related work and references
• Technical description of material
  
• What you propose to do, and expect to achieve
  
• What you would like to do (time permitting), but are not sure if you will complete.
• References (properly formatted)
  
2. Project presentation [DATE: TBD]:  We will organize project presentations at the end of the course to
   
3. Project submission [DATE: TBD]: In addition to submitting your software implementation, please also submit a final project report (PDF document;  no more than 8 pages in SIGGRAPH format). Your report should document your results and findings.
   

Project Suggestions:  Here are a number of ideas for possible projects:

• 3D extensions of earlier projects
• Implement an idea from a research paper, e.g., ACM SIGGRAPH, or Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA).
  
• 3D rigid body simulation
• Impulse-based
• "Staggered Projections"
  
• 3D hair simulation
• E.g., "3D spaghetti"
  
• 3D cloth simulation
• Mesh-based cloth [Baraff and Witkin 1998]
  
• Knitted cloth [Kaldor et al. 2008]
  
• Physically based ___ on the GPU, e.g., using NVIDIA's CUDA
  
• 3D solid simulation
• Corotational solids
• Collision Detection
  
• E.g., Distance fields
  
• Shape Matching
• FastLSM
• Octree
  
• Fracturing solids
• E.g., a 2D fracture simulator
  
• Fluid simulation
• Stable fluids
• Liquids (w/ level sets)
  
• Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH)
• "Goop" (viscoelastic solids)
  
• Fluids with solids
  
• Mark Carlson, Peter J. Mucha, Greg Turk, Rigid fluid: animating the interplay between rigid bodies and fluid, ACM Transactions on Graphics, 23(3), August 2004, pp. 377-384.
  
• Articulated body simulation
• Articulated characters
• Forward dynamics, e.g., Featherstone's algorithm
• E.g., simulate a detailed botanical tree
  
• Character animation & control
  
• Motion graphs
• "Rag doll" physics
  
• Sound synthesis
• Rigid body sound
• Harmonic Fluid sounds
  
• Motion control
• Rigid and deformable bodies
• E.g., Many-Worlds Browsing for rigid bodies, or deformable objects (spaghetti), or ... ?
  
• Fluid and smoke control
• Other ideas on these webpages:
• CS 567 Physically Based Animation
  
• CS6650 Computation Motion (Fall 2008)
  

Copyright Doug James, April 2009.